A good punter and arguably the best the Vikings ever had but too much of a drama queen for just a kicker.
Posted on 01/02/2014 12:13:32 PM PST by C19fan
Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team. At the time, quite a few people asked me if I thought it was because of my recent activism for same-sex marriage rights, and I was very careful in how I answered the question. My answer, verbatim, was always, "I honestly don't know, because I'm not in those meetings with the coaches and administrative people."
This is a true answer. I honestly don't know if my activism was the reason I got fired.
However, I'm pretty confident it was.
Allow myself to tell you a story about ... myself. The following is a record of what happened to me during my 2012 season with the Minnesota Vikings, written down immediately after the 2013 draft in April, when I realized what was happening, and revised recently only for clarity. I tried to keep things as objective as possible, and anything you see in quotes are words that I directly recall being said to me.
This is a story about how actions have consequences, no matter how just or moral you think your cause happens to be, and it's a story about the price people all too often pay for speaking out.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadspin.com ...
They, and placekickers, are the only ones who do. The rest cheat and use their hands and block and stuff. < /s>
But they come in handy when the regular players don’t play well.
He’s a California guy so expect to see him running for some political office out there.
see my #23
“He was warned. Yes, you can speak up about causes, but on a topic as sensitive as this one, why risk your career?”
Corporations are desperate to avoid controversy. If there’s a message, they (legitimately) want to control it so that it reflects well on them. If he wanted to advocate for anything he should have done it quietly, behind the scenes with lobbying or money. But using fame that is only granted because of the company you work for is inherently dangerous to your continued employment. That’s just the facts of life.
Ben Rothlesberger survived doing some stupid things such as hosting parties where he reportedly got drunk, crude, and ran about with his schlong sticking out. He survived because he was a great quarterback.
Jeff Reed, the team kicker, got involved in far less embarrassing stunts which proved to be the final straw in getting him released. It wasn't the stunts, it was the fact he'd gone too far south in the capacity of doing his job.
Apparently, the owner of the team, Zygi Wilf, didn’t go to bat for him.
This kicker was terribly ignorant.
No, Chris, you weren’t an NFL player. You were a punter. And truth be told there are a lot of fans of other teams who think the entire Minnesota franchise is gay, anyway.
You said it all better than I could.
I’ve read the average career in the NFL is 3 years.
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Only if you count those initially hired but let go before opening day.
According to a recent NFL Management Council analysis of players who entered the NFL between 1993 and 2002, the average career length for a player who is on his club’s opening-day roster as a rookie is 6.0 years.
He was a middle-of-the-pack punter in 2012. Some better, some worse.
All of these homosexual bigots and their supporters are self centered, pompous and carry a chip on their shoulder. Anyone who dares disagree with them are to be personally and professionally destroyed. The liberal mantra of tolerance, diversity, compassion and open mindedness are all only for those who agree with them, no conservative or traditionalist is to be accorded those courtesies. Certainly there are other opportunities for this former Viking. Maybe he could advise his buddies that homosexual sex causes fatal diseases, that activities similar to those taking place in SF’s gay parades causes serious injuries to the body and that homosexual men have a life expectancy 20-25 years shorter than straight, monogomos men. Public service announcements along those lines would be most helpful to the male homosexual community, if he can find any media outlet to air those PSAs.
With the salary cap and the “lowball” rookie salary schedule they introduced in 2011, veteran “utility” players are definitely marginalized.
The NFL doesn’t have a kluwe.
of course the fact the guy can’t kick for squat couldn’t possibly be the reason…./s
A good punter and arguably the best the Vikings ever had but too much of a drama queen for just a kicker.
Obvious to me he was fired for being a PITA. He felt the need to comment on everthing. It's no wonder no other team wants him.
I wonder how Chris Kluwe (who was in the NFL twice as long as Duck Dynasty has been on the air) feels about that?
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